May 16, 2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

Note: A standard for crossword puzzles is when all words in a clue are capitalized, the solution is the abbreviation or acronym for that clue; e.g., Alternating Current = AC.

2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles

Take a break from the drudgery by trying your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

All of these crossword puzzles were created using the fabulous Crossword Express (now called " Magnum Opus") software.

- Dec 19, Dec 12, Dec 5
- Nov 28, Nov 21, Nov 14, Nov 7
- Oct 31, Oct 24, Oct 17, Oct 10, Oct 3
- Sep 26, Sep 12, Sep 5
- Aug 29, Aug 22
- Jul 25, Jul 18, Jul 11, Jul 4
- Jun 27, Jun 20, Jun 13, Jun 6
- May 30, May 23, May 16, May 9, May 2
- Apr 25, Apr 18, Apr 11, Apr 4
- Mar 28, Mar 21, Mar 14, Mar 7
- Feb 28, Feb 21, Feb 14, Feb 7
- Jan 31, Jan 24, Jan 17, Jan 10, Jan 3

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ACROSS 1. Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (abbr.) 6. 300 Hz to 3 kHz 7. Computer character set (abbr.) 13. Large asteroid orbiting between Saturn and Uranus 15. Does not reference the power supply outputs to ground 17. Chemical symbol for neon 18. Area on a shaft for accommodating a setscrew 21. Opposite of O.D. 22. Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.) 24. Equivalent Series Resistance (abbr.) 26. Band between RF and BB 27. Display type 28. Direction of carbon fiber strands 30. Type of current 32. Collection of electronic records (abbr.) 34. Chemical symbol for polonium 36. Pure carrier (abbr.) 37. Unit of inductance (abbr.) 38. Chemical symbol for thallium 40. Crystal faces 43. Infrared (abbr.) 44. Galilean moon 45. Causes the temperature to drop 47. PC follower 48. Opposite of set 50. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr., pl.) 53. Type of flip-flop 54. Singulated piece of IC wafer 56. Bandwidth (abbr.) 58. Amp/1000 61. Weight (abbr.) 62. 12 inches (pl.) 63. Scheduling graph type 65. Power supply vendor in Minneapolis, MN 66. Electromagnetic wavelength unit 70. Bit rate unit 72. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc. 73. Boob tube (abbr.) 74. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.) 75. Chemical symbol for holmium 77. Next to 78. System simulation software vendor purchased by Eagleware, then by Agilent 81. Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing 83. Its chemical symbol is O 86. Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo 87. 10^1 numerical prefix 88. One port of an amplifier 90. Frequency response graph 95. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.) 96. Chemical symbol for cobalt 98. Chemical symbol for cadmium 100. Chemical symbol for bismuth 101. Base 16 number system (abbr.) 103. Million multiply accumulate operations (abbr.) 105. Transmit Incremental Tuning (abbr.) 107. Its chemical symbol is No 108. Suppresses an oscillation	DOWN 1. Type of current flow (abbr.) 2. Unit of inductance (abbr.) 3. Trigonometric function equal to the ratio between the side opposite a given angle, and the hypotenuse 4. Amateur Radio Emergency Service (abbr.) 5. Part of a FOR loop 7. Chemical symbol for aluminum 8. Small DIP package (abbr.) 9. Computer Assisted Design and Development 10. Network department (abbr.) 11. Network department (abbr.) 12. Innovative Power ________, RF coupler & power divider company in Holbrook, , NY 14. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.) 15. Unit of length (abbr.) 16. ________ Solutions, cellphone & wireless RF device manufacturer in Woburn, MA 19. Chemical symbol for lithium 20. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.) 23. Reflected radar or sonar signal 25. Radio Direction Finding (abbr.) 27. Linux Operating System (abbr.) 29. Asynchronous Communication Interface Adapter (abbr.) 31. Logic family (abbr.) 33. Stock symbol for Boeing 34. Chemical symbol for platinum 35. Internet address (abbr.) 39. Family of ICs with a certain component density level (abbr.) 41. Mr. Gauss' first name 42. European spectrum allocation agency (abbr.) 43. Current-voltage phase mnemonic 46. RF shielding manufacturer headquartered in Easton, PA 49. The "E" in EHF 51. Centimeter (abbr.) 52. Chemical symbol for silicon 54. Decimeter (abbr.) 55. Internet protocol (abbr.) 57. Term used in soldering to achieve the condition that occurs when the metals being soldered are hot enough to melt the solder so it flows over the surface 59. Be behind in phase 60. Airport Surveillance Radar (abbr.) 61. One of the Ws in WWW 62. Gasoline, diesel, etc. 64. Nano___, a cylindrical form of graphene 65. ________ Microwave Corporation, RF switch, attenuator, and DLVAs company in Frederick, MD 66. Capacitor manufacturer 67. Crystal filter type (abbr.) 68. Time division duplex (abbr.) 69. Unit of admittance 71. Akin to statics, with movement 73. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.) 76. Shorthand for oxygen 79. Chemical symbol for silver 80. Japanese semiconductor & equipment manufacturer (abbr.) 81. Decibels above or below a dipole antenna (abbr.) 82. 1/000 of an inch 84. 36 in. (abbr., pl.) 85. Chemical symbol for gallium 89. Chemical symbol for nobelium 91. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.) 92. Electronic warfare defense (abbr.) 93. BlackBerry or Jordana for example (abbr.) 94. Opposite of I.D. 95. Chemical symbol for niobium 97. Keyboard key 99. Chemical element abbreviated Sn 101. Chemical symbol for helium 102. Greek letter 103. Unit of length (abbr.) 104. "Calling any amateur radio station" 105. Chemical symbol for xenon 106. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)

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